ISIS Seizes Key Towns, Dam in Iraq After Routing Kurds

ISIS is making another successful push in northern Iraq today, having successfully routed fighters from the Kurdish Peshmerga and seized three important towns in the area, along with the nation’s single largest dam.

The push into the area also chased some 200,000 members of the Yazidi religion out, and Yazidi shrines were reportedly also targeted by ISIS fighters. The targeted region is where the bulk of the world’s Yazidis live. 30 Yazidis were also reported killed.

The push into Sinjar, west of Mosul, also threatens to eventually challenge Kurdish control of Tel Afar, and by extension the only Kurdish-held border crossing into Syria, where other Kurds have established a semi-autonomous region.

Lies would be told, incidents would be highlighted/exaggerated and invented, strident speeches would be made, documents fabricated, their enemies praised and supplied, their every move reported as the quintescence of all evil, their guilt determined before any evidence could be examined.

Since none of the above is happening then we could assume that it is all part of an old plan to partition Iraq..

I was helping a Kurdish-Iraqi film-maker with a documentary on the Yezidis-a fire-honouring Sufi sect of Sinjar who are helping wounded children of all communities in Iraq get treatment in Germany. Yesterday the ISIS attacked Sinjar and has asked all Yezidis to convert to takfiri Sunni Islam or face death. They are hiding in the mountains and have only 24 hours left.

ISIS comes from Russia England , France , Germany Bosnia, Kosovo the United States and every country where Sunni Muslims might come from . These Muslims are on Jihad . They refuse to be turned back their goal is to turn everyone to Sunni Islam or die .

It would be helpful to know just what that "means". My supposition from almost total ignorance is that Sunnis are more like Calvinist iconoclasts who would destroy churches with statues in the English countryside during the Civil War. The Shi'ites had more interest in saints and venerated more than just simply Al'lah (like Catholics and High Church Episcopalians were to dour Calvinists who wanted stripped-down churches with any relics or anything). So because they are a version of the "terrible simplifiers" throughout history, they cut like a hot knife through butter and think a lot of their macho selves, but they are brutal in their austerity. It's a disease the human race breaks out in now and then, in different guises.